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Shortly after he became our president, Lawrence H. Summers invited Professor Cornel R. West ’74 for a talk. I gather Harvard was paying West about a quarter of a million dollars a year. West, whom my classmate and friend Leon Wieseltier aptly described in The New Republic as “self-endeared,” had found time to make a rap CD that his own website touted as a seminal event in musical history. But he was frequently absent from Cambridge, and had published very little scholarly work. Many thought Summers’ request that...
...than the Vice President, who left his seat in the House 17 years ago, the President lacks a single senior staffer who has ever been elected to Congress. At various times, all of Bush's predecessors found a reason to check this box: Bill Clinton had longtime California lawmaker Leon Panetta as chief of staff, Bush's father had former congressman Henson Moore as a deputy chief of staff, and Ronald Reagan had former Senator Howard Baker as his chief of staff as well. If Bush cared about working with Congress, one lawmaker said, he would have some people around...
...Leon Pattman...
...University and of American higher education for 20 years. Other admirable leaders in the recent past include Vartan Gregorian at Brown University, William G. Bowen at Princeton University, Nannerl O. Keohane at Duke University, and Charles M. Vest at MIT. Nor is there a dearth of impressive leaders today: Leon Botstein of Bard University has been a vigorous spokesperson on a variety of issues for many years, and Shirley M. Tilghman has already put a distinctive mark on Princeton University in a much shorter period of time.This is neither the time nor the place to comment on Summers?...
...Leon Pattman...